Hi, I’m Lola Usupova. I draw pictures for children’s books. Usually, I work with authors to make their stories come to life, but I also have some personal projects. One of them won me the Margaret Carey scholarship for this conference.

I’ve been drawing pictures for children’s books for three years, part-time. I enjoy it so much that I now do it full-time. I’m always learning to get better.

Before this, I worked in marketing for over six years, mostly on IT projects. It was interesting, but I found my dream job as an illustrator.